Spherix Notes Additional Patent Coverage Granted

NEW YORK, Nov. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Spherix Incorporated (Nasdaq: SPEX) announced today that additional patent coverage has been granted by the United States Patent & Trademark Office to the patent portfolio being acquired by Spherix, in the field of pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the eighth worldwide.  The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Ô predicted that it will move from fourth to the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US by 2020.  US Patent number 10,463,684 was recently issued to the University of Texas at Austin and being assigned to Spherix as part of the CBM BioPharma, Inc. asset acquisition previously announced.  The patent targets, among other things, pancreatic cancer with a different mechanism than the current standard of care.  The compound has been shown to be effective in cancer cells that are resistant to the current standard of care in preclinical studies and expands the patent coverage for this compound.

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